Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1990, 12:45 AM CDT for Callaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 11, 1990, 12:45 AM CDT (05:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 1990, 1:40 AM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Callaway County, MO
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 271 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1052 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1568 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KCOU 110545
SVRCOU
MOC019-027-110645-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
1245 AM CDT WED JUL 11 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF MISSOURI
EASTERN BOONE...CALLAWAY
AT 1240 AM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 14 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF COLUMBIA AT COLUMBIA REGIONAL AIRPORT MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES
AN HOUR. 58 MILE PER HOUR WINDS WERE RECORDED AT THE AIRPORT
AT 1238 AM.
PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY OFF OF THE
TELEPHONE UNLESS FOR EMERGENCY. DO NOT USE ELECTICAL APPLIANCES
UN5TIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
LA GREEWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 7:43 PM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 730 PM CDT TUE JUL 10 1990 AT 730 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI...75 MILES EAST OF KANSAS CITY...FROM JUST EAST OF BROWNING MISSOURI TO NEAR SLATER MISSOURI. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF UP TO 50 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A 55 MILE WIDE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM 100 MILES NORTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY... TO 80 MILES SOUTH OF TOPEKA KANSAS. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE THRU THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PARTS OF THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 8:58 PM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 830 PM CDT TUE JUL 10 1990 AT 830 PM...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ACROSS NORTHEAST
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Boone | 60 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.